Brilliant news stories

[Amake]

Jimmie Åkesson, the head of the Swedish Racist Party, is holding a speech in my town square Monday morning. This is good news because it gives me and everyone else in town a chance to show our backs in silent protest. And possibly a few middle fingers.

I plan to bring a cake, just to remind Jimmie of the last speech he held where someone caked him in the face.

Local news might not be very interesting to those of you not in that locale, but I'm so excited I just had to share.

[empath]

Hey, "not interesting" - au contraire; the promise of a forumite giving a xenophobe (seeking a position of power to enforce his views on many) his just desserts is something worthy of the 'thread of win' too!

[Smeghead]

New Zealand: Cat brings home bag of cannabis
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27486244

[plummeting_sloth]

I was in DC having lunch with a friend on this day and spotted on or two of these gentlemen about. Most seemed unfazed/amused, but a few seemed genuinely concerned about 1) All the cops (it was national police conference in town that weekend) and 2) where all their buddies were

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/19/1300477/--American-Spring-organizers-baffled-as-to-where-their-10-30-million-patriots-went?fb_action_ids=10203796893505996&fb_action_types=og.likes#

[plummeting_sloth]

Badminton rackets, bent hockey sticks... same difference, right?

http://www.vocativ.com/culture/fun/town-built-huge-memorial-wrong-guy/

[AstroBase]

Man starts 10$ kickstarter to make potato salad, raises 32,000$.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/32 ... tato-salad

[AdmiralMemo]

That's been fluctuating for a while. Within half an hour during Paul's stream, it went from $35K to $46K to $15K and now it's back to $34K.

[Master Gunner]

Something to keep in mind about all the money being thrown at this: while the average donation for a Kickstarter tends to be in the ~$40-50 range, here it's $10, with a third of people only backing at the $1 level.

So it's mostly just people having a laugh by throwing a couple bucks at a silly thing, and just a few people putting any serious money behind it.

[plummeting_sloth]

When did Alex have time with all his streaming to make it down to Denver

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-greets-horse-head-mask-man-denver

[plummeting_sloth]

It's a funny if you find funny to mean deeply, deeply sad

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/az-protestors-blockade-ymca-bus

[Wylee_Coyote]

In a follow-up to a Feed Dump story from last year, Irina Walker, exiled Princess of Romania, has pleaded guilty to running a cockfighting ring.

I think now is the time for Kathleen to step up her write-in campaign. They have write-in campaigns for Princess, right?

From the article:

"The Walkers had separate hearings on Wednesday but smiled at each other in the court room. Irina, wearing a bright blue dress, had a spray of rhinestones on the toes of her sandals."

It's like something out of a storybook. An awful, depressing, cockfighting-centered storybook.

[AdmiralMemo]

Not really a "news story" and probably not "brilliant" but something I thought I'd share: Someone "tagged" a deer corpse that was on the side of the road.

*sighs* Baltimore... I love you, but please stop this type of crap.

[Bebop Man]

My reaction to that is torn between sadness and laughter.

[JackSlack]

In the spirit of Feed Dump, today I'm going to give you most of a story and make you guess the most important detail.

A Sydney train station guard lost final appeal today and thus his job. But what did he do to lose his job in the first place?

Answer below:

He tried to punch a transit officer, and yelled "you don't know who you're f***ing with, your jobs are gone". This is what we call 'cause and effect'.

Link.

[CapnHat87]

Man parks plane on main street outside pub, is charged. Oh, the joys of small-ish town Western Australia...

Link

[Bebop Man]

A man chops swings an axe into his neighbor's head a full four times. Neighbors all around agree "he must've done something to piss him off, he's usually a very sweet guy".

[viscomica]

Did you know that as of this week India has a Ministry of Yoga?
Yes, Yoga.

For more info: http://www.euronews.com/2014/11/10/india-pm-modi-appoints-yoga-minister/
(Originally read on France24)

[plummeting_sloth]

HaHA...it's true. We're so lame!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/11/charlie-rangel-cracker-term-of-endearment_n_6136028.html

[Darkflame]

Jimmie Åkesson, the head of the Swedish Racist Party, is holding a speech in my town square Monday morning. This is good news because it gives me and everyone else in town a chance to show our backs in silent protest. And possibly a few middle fingers.

I plan to bring a cake, just to remind Jimmie of the last speech he held where someone caked him in the face.

I hope you just sit at the front slowly eating small bits of the cake, occasionally raising your hand a bit, but never actually throwing it

[JackSlack]

Two people arrested for stealing someone's mobile phone, while in a police station.

Just... just wow.

[JackSlack]

Queensland driver received fine notice for obeying speed limit.

[empath]

Officials extract and sieze a WW2 tank being kept a pensioner's cellar.

(oh, and a variety of other militaria...including a torpedo and an anti-aircraft gun)

Apparently, back in the day, the man was driving it around town back in a heavy snowstorm back in the 70's...